Montedison S.p.a.

Giuseppe Spoto

Franco Montino

Mixed oxides of alumina and zirconia having a controlled granulometric distribution, consisting essentially of spherical, submicronic particles, wherein zirconia is distributed uniformly in alumina and may reach 38% by weight, said zirconia being in the stabilized form at room temperature in the tetragonal phase, after having subjected the amorphous hydrated composite oxides to thermal treatments, wherein occurs the transition of zirconia to the tetragonal phase.

Mixed oxides of alumina and zirconia consisting essentially of spherical

A process for preparing hydrated alumina consisting essentially of spherical particles having a narrow granulometric distribution (polydispersion index dw/dn.ltoreq.2) starting from aqueous solution of aluminum sulphate, the molar ratio SO.sub.4.sup.= /Al.sup.3+ being greater than 1, by homogeneous precipitation in the presence of cationic polyelectrolytes, which are soluble under the reaction conditions and have a mean molecular weight higher than one million and an ionicity, deriving from the cationic groups present in the polyelectrolyte, of at least 3 milliequivalents/gram.

Process for preparing hydrated alumina consisting essentially of

A process for preparing titanium dioxide in the form of spherical particles having the particle size distribution indicated by dw/dn.ltoreq.2, by hydrolysis of strongly acid solutions of Ti(IV), wherein the molar ratio SO.sub.4.sup.= /Ti(IV) is at least 1.5, and in the presence of cationic polyelectrolytes having a molecular weight higher than 1 million and a ionicity of at least 3 milliequivalents per gram.

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